DAYTON, Tenn. - A bronze of Clarence Darrow today joined his Scopes Trial adversary in front of the Rhea County Courthouse here for the first time in nearly a century amid music from the 1920s, people in period dress, and onlookers sweating in the July heat.
The statue of Darrow was dedicated at the site of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial opposite a statue of William Jennings Bryan that was installed in 2005.
The adversaries "would have been tickled, absolutely tickled" with the event, actor John de Lancie said after the seven-foot-tall bronze of Darrow was unveiled.
De Lancie, best known as "Q" on the television series "Star Trek: The Next Generation," also played Darrow in a stage production.
He wondered at what the pair of lawyers would have thought of drawing a crowd 92 years later.